There is no other reality than present reality.
ALAN WATTSYou do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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Playing a violin is, after all, only scraping a cat’s entrails with horsehair.
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The past and future are real illusions, that they exist in the present, which is what there is and all there is.
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Society is our extended mind and body.
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When you find out that there was never anything in the dark side to be afraid of, Nothing is left but to love.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated.
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Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.
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Problems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
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Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the universe is listening to its harmonies. We are the witnesses through which the universe becomes conscious of its glory, of its magnificence.
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The menu is not the meal.
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The more we try to live in the world of words, the more we feel isolated and alone, the more all the joy and liveliness of things is exchanged for mere certainty and security.
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We must abandon completely the notion of blaming the past for any kind of situation we’re in and reverse our thinking and see that the past always flows back form the present.
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You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meanings of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
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I am what happens between the maternity ward and the Crematorium.
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We do not “come into” this world; we come out of it, as leaves from a tree. As the ocean “waves,” the universe “peoples.” Every individual is an expression of the whole realm of nature, a unique action of the total universe.
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You didn’t come into this world. You came out of it, like a wave from the ocean. You are not a stranger here.
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